elegy

英 [ˈelədʒi]

美 [ˈelədʒi]

n.  挽诗; 挽歌; 哀歌

复数：elegies　

GRE

BNC.24307 / COCA.19616

牛津词典

noun

• 挽诗；挽歌；哀歌
  a poem or song that expresses sadness, especially for sb who has died

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 悲歌;挽歌;挽诗
  Anelegyis a sad poem, often about someone who has died.
  1. ...a touching elegy for a lost friend.
     致亡友的感人挽歌

英英释义

noun

• a mournful poem
  Synonym:lament

双语例句

• Don't you know the singer? The queen of elegy?
  你不知道那歌手吗？怨曲女王啊？
• He fled in panic, all the way Elegy.
  他仓皇出逃，一路悲歌。
• South Korean film Time presents us with a Pandora-like gloomy elegy for the fascination and destruction of plastic surgery.
  该片呈现了整容手术对现代社会的致命吸引力和毁灭性打击的两难境地。
• Elegy in the Wildness& On Mauriac s Psychological Realistic Novel The Wildness of Love;
  荒漠里的哀歌&评莫里亚克的心理现实主义小说《爱的荒漠》
• Afterwards, Ran Yunfei evolved from an elegy poet of rare words to the loudest writer and liberal scholar in Sichuan who advocates the progressive spirit of Hu Shih.
  此后，云飞就从一个言辞稀少的哀歌诗人，变成四川盆地内分贝最高的作家，和一个推崇胡适式的渐进改良的、自由主义知识分子。
• He was caught in a dilemma and set down a desperate elegy, in a transient lifetime, for the forerunner.
  而其于进退失据中，以短暂的生命为那个时代的先行者写下了绝望的挽歌。
• It was for Keats that Shelley had written his elegy, adonais, in1821, in which he seemed to predict his own death.
  雪莱在1821年写的那篇挽歌《阿童尼》是为悼念济慈而写的，但在这诗篇中，他好像也预言了自己的死亡。
• This is my elegy.
  这是我的死亡挽歌。
• It is an "elegy in marble" or some say an expression of a "dream".
  这是一个“大理石挽歌”，抑或如他人所说的一个“梦”的表达。
• When they sing a beautiful elegy to youth, a lament for all the things lost along the way, many were in tears.
  当他们唱起动人的青春挽歌，悼念一路走来错失的所有，许多人都流下了眼泪。